başına minerge
/baʃɯna minerɡe/
Literal translation
to mount onto someone's head
Intended meaning
To gain the upper hand over someone and subject them to one's will; to lord it over them.
- Bıla meni başıma minerge tebiregendile.These people have started to lord it over me.
- Bar terslik da bizni kesibizdedi, Halimat. Erleribizni başıbızğa mindirebiz da, artda ua arqabızdan tüşüralmay aylanabız.[Babun:] All the blame is on us ourselves, Halimat. We let our husbands ride on our heads, and then we go about unable to get them off our backs.
Variants
- başına mindirirge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 112
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 62